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THE PARSHA PICK-ME-UP

(Re: The Path to Humility, Issue 239)

I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the weekly parsha column. It doesn’t get the kind of attention that your (phenomenal) serials and features get, but it should! At my stage in life, I have hardly any time to read anything inspirational, I can’t go to shul, and I barely know what parsha it is. When I open up The Boro Park View every Wednesday and start with the parsha column, I get my weekly dose of inspiration — just in time to start my Shabbos preparations. Thank you!

A Busy Yiddishe Mamme

PASSING THE TEST

(Re: Flying Colors, Issue 239)

I really enjoyed reading Tali Edelstein’s account about her experience taking an aptitude test. I always wondered if all those IQ tests, personality tests and aptitude tests are worth anything. It was super interesting to see which jobs the test recommended, most of which I had never even heard of. I loved being able to “hear” the writer’s commentary as she went along, so we got to see what the test was all about as well as how she felt about it.

I was a little disappointed to see the reference to AI in the article. The gedolim of our community have unequivocally directed us not to use AI. I don’t know where the writer lives, and I’m sure it was just a mistake. Please be more careful in the future.

Thanks for your amazing magazine. I look forward to every new issue.

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(Re: POV, Issue 239)

I was excited to read that POV is going weekly. It’s my favorite column! It’s like standing at the bus stop or at a simcha, schmoozing with people you don’t see too often, and getting interesting and new ideas. Looking forward to seeing it in every issue! Just a suggestion: Maybe you can set up a way for readers to send in ideas for POV questions.

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YOUR CHIZUK MADE A DIFFERENCE

(Re: At His Side, Issue 452)

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I would like to thank The Boro Park View for printing the article “At His Side” about the special Yid who has committed his entire life to learning Torah and his wife who made it possible for so many decades. I would like to share with you the impact the story had on me personally. I have been learning in kollel since I got married over a decade ago. Baruch Hashem, my wife and I have a large family. Our income is low, and our standard of living is also low. We try make it work and focus on being content with our lifestyle. As time goes on, however, it’s become harder to make ends meet. In addition, the standards of living around us has risen tremendously over the last fifteen years. All these factors have been wearing us down, leading us to question whether we need to make changes. Like the person in the article, we don’t want to… but it’s hard.

Reading the article gave my wife and myself a lot of chizuk. It changed my perspective and gave me a huge boost to continue. We know what we want, and even though it’s hard, we see it can be done. Thank you for the chizuk and inspiration.

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(Re: Crossing the Divide, Issue 238)

I just wanted to say that I loved the article “Crossing the Divide” in the Shavuos issue. When I was in elementary school, a girl from Yemen joined my class. Over the years, we slowly became friends. It was so fascinating and enriching to learn about another community and see the differences, and especially similarities, in the way we each lived. Reading your article, what struck me most is that the differences are all in the small details. On the important things, I think we all agree.

Thank you for printing such uplifting stories. May we be zoche soon to experience again the sense of “k’ish echad b’lev echad” like we did at Har Sinai, with the coming of Mashiach b’meheirah

T.H.

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A few weeks ago, I attended an event at my son’s school. At one point during the speech, I stepped out of the auditorium to call home and check on my kids. As I was walking back toward the auditorium, one of the organizers of the event approached me. There was another man with him whom I did not know. They asked me if I was going back into the auditorium and if I knew who a specific person was. They were looking for a mother in the school, who also happens to be a good friend of mine. They asked me if I could call her out of the room; they had been trying to reach her on her cell phone, but it was off.

When I finally found my friend in the audience, I motioned to her to follow me. Only when we’d stepped out of the auditorium did it register that the other man was a Hatzolah member. He told my friend that her son had been riding an electric scooter when he hit the curb and went flying. He had been going at high speed and was badly injured. He was in an ambulance on the way to the hospital at that point. My friend’s daughter, who had been babysitting, tried reaching her by phone, but it was off, so Hatzolah came to the school to find her.

Baruch Hashem, her son is expected to make a complete recovery. However, his injuries were significant. He was hospitalized for two days. Although this happened four weeks ago, he has not been able to return to school.

The Hatzolah members and medical team all agree that his helmet saved his life. If your child rides any kind of scooter or bike, make sure they wear a helmet. The importance of a helmet cannot be overstated. I realize that these stories circulate frequently, which may inure readers to the message, but please realize that the fact that this happens so frequently is proof that the message cannot be ignored.

Wishing everyone a safe summer, Y. Friedman

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In Truth

Y. Levenstein

When the meraglim returned to the midbar, Klal Yisroel was waiting to hear their report. “We came to the land to which you sent us,” they began, “and it is flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.” Then they continued talking, but with a negative slant, relaying their view of the mighty inhabitants, their giant offspring, and the large fortified cities ( Bamidbar 13:27–28).

Rashi explains why the meraglim prefaced their lashon hara with two positive descriptions, citing the Gemara ( Sotah 35a): “Any lie that is not prefaced with a little truth in the beginning cannot be ultimately maintained.”

This concept is a bit difficult to understand. How could it be that sheker, which is 100% negative, can be maintained if it is joined by emes, which is absolutely good?

How is it possible that emes supports the sheker?

IN THE CITY OF LEMBERG, in the beis din of the Yeshuos Yakov, Rav Yakov Orenstein, zt”l, there was a chashuve talmid chacham who was tasked with overseeing the city’s eruv. His name was Reb Naftali Hirsch.

Every Friday, Reb Naftali would make his rounds of the city, inspecting the eruv and fixing whatever needed to be fixed so no Yid would transgress the issur of

hotzaah on Shabbos. All other days of the week, Reb Naftali would immerse himself in learning, to the exclusion of all else.

There was no money in the home — quite literally. Though they barely managed to scrape by, Reb Naftali’s family never complained. However, as his children grew up and his daughters came of age, a new problem arose. Without the offer of a dowry, how would he ever merit finding good sons-in-law?

Years passed, and soon there were four daughters of marriageable age, all waiting and wondering if their hair would grow white before they were wed.

At that time, the government levied a “Shabbos candle tax,” demanding a substantial sum of money for every candle lit in Yiddishe homes for Shabbos. This decree caused the already impoverished Yidden much suffering.

Many Yidden would report using just one or two candles when in fact they lit many more. The officials expected this and found no way to enforce the decree without involving the help of the Yidden themselves. Several Yidden would be responsible to collect the taxes; with these insiders, it would be hard to hide the true number of candles be-

The officials appointed a supervisor for the tax collectors, a Yid known to be a rasha

embracethe

“You sell me your zechus from the eruv, and I’ll pay you enough to marry off all four of your daughters comfortably”

ing lit. The tax collectors were offered a generous percentage of the funds they collected for the unreported candles they caught.

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These collectors made life miserable for their fellow Yidden. They snitched to the government at every opportunity, even on candles that had already been taxed.

To make matters worse, the officials appointed a supervisor for the tax collectors, a Yid known to be a rasha, a man who had no connection to Yiddishkeit and never came to shul — not even on Yom Kippur. He pushed the collectors to be as “faithful” as they could to their task. Needless to say, everyone tried their utmost to steer clear of this man.

One Erev Shabbos, as Reb Naftali was busy with the eruv, he heard a voice call his name. He nearly jumped out of his skin when he realized it was none other than the feared tax supervisor, who was calling out from the window of his house.

“Come inside,” the man said. “I must speak with you.”

Reb Naftali had no choice but to comply. His lips murmured Tehillim as he made his way to the supervisor’s door.

Surprisingly, the supervisor welcomed Reb Naftali warmly, offering him a recliner. Then he began speaking. “I watch you every week, and I envy you. Better said, I envy your reward. I see how lovingly you do your job, your mitzvah, and I know great reward awaits you.

“I want to make a deal with you,” he continued. “You sell me your zechus from the eruv, and I’ll pay you enough to marry off all four of your daughters comfortably.”

Reb Naftali sat, openmouthed. Should he really sell his reward? Perhaps for hachnasas kallah it was worthwhile…

The tax collector supervisor noticed Reb Naftali wavering. “Don’t

rush to reply today. Think it over, and let me know next week.”

Reb Naftali went straight to the Yeshuos Yakov.

“You should know,” said the Yeshuos Yakov, “that besides chiyus empowered by kedusha, there is no chiyus in this world. All life takes its energy from true sources of kedusha

“Even reshaim,” he explained. “They may be far from the source of kedusha, but it is only because they tapped into some iota of kedusha, which they perhaps earned from a good deed, that gives them the ability to maintain years and years of wickedness.

“This supervisor,” the Yeshuos Yakov said, “already cut himself off from anything that has a connection to kedusha. That’s why his neshamah longs so desperately for a zechus, for a mitzvah that would connect him with the source of life.

“Beware not to give this man any part of your mitzvah! If you do, you’ll be enabling him to continue to do bad, and even negatively affect Klal Yisroel.”

Reb Naftali Hirsch went right to the supervisor’s home to tell him that he was declining the deal.

Amazingly, just several minutes later, the supervisor fell to the ground without a sign of life.

Clearly, even evil cannot exist without receiving energy from kedusha

* * * * *

Kedusha empowers everything in this world. Even the very opposite of kedusha can have no power on its own, if not for what it acquires from kedusha. Without that element of kedusha, it simply dissipates.

For this reason, if a falsehood contains no trace of truth, if it has no connection to the source of all good, it will inevitably not endure.

Proposed Housing Project Has Neighbors Up in Arms

The lack of available housing in Boro Park has long been an issue, but for those living along the Long Island Rail Road tracks that bisect the neighborhood, plans for a new development are anything but welcome.

The proposed Brooklyn Yards development would be constructed on a platform topping the train tracks from 16th Avenue and 59th Street until 14th Avenue between 61st and 62nd Streets. Consisting of 14 buildings of various sizes, Brooklyn Yards would wind its way diagonally through narrow backyards, shoehorning in three six-story apartment buildings, a ten-story commercial building, and eleven townhouses between existing yards and buildings.

Air rights to the three lots that comprise the two-and-ahalf-block-long parcel were bought and sold multiple times, purchased most recently by a Williamsburg developer in 2019 for $4.25 million. The developer, Brooklyn Yards LLC, hopes to build 267 housing units, some of which would be dedicated to affordable housing. Because of the unique demographics of the property, special permits would be needed to waive backyard and some parking requirements and to share air rights.

Attempts by the developer to make the deal more palatable, by adding in a walkway and a playground as well as a parking lot that would accommodate 40 cars, has fallen flat for those living in the area.Those who live near the proposed site are banding together to oppose the plan, which they say will “devastate our entire neighborhood.” They have been vocal in their opposition, saying that it will only bring additional congestion to an already crowded section of Boro Park, with some suggesting that zoning in nearby areas be changed from commercial to residential to create more housing options, or that the project be shifted to a less populated section of the train tracks.

The project, whose construction is dependent on zoning

changes, received its first approval from Community Board 12 at a meeting held last week, but Brooklyn Yards will still need to receive additional approvals before it can move ahead.

The project appears to be consistent with Mayor Eric Adams’ City of Yes Housing Opportunity, which aims to change what City Hall has termed “outdated, restrictive and complicated” zoning laws, in order to add “a little more housing in every neighborhood.”

Twelve-Year-Old Surrenders to NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force

One week after he knocked the hats off of multiple Jewish men heading home from shul, a twelve-year-old from Kensington turned himself in to the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force in connection with the incidents.

Hamodia reported that surveillance cameras captured footage of the tween riding his bike through Boro Park at approximately 10 p.m. on June 15. Shomrim combed video footage and circulated images of the boy, who was dressed in a black top and blue jeans at the time of the incident, in an effort to positively identify him.

The suspect was accompanied by his parents when he surrendered to police on June 22. With only two victims agreeing to file police reports, he was charged with two counts of aggravated harassment.

Check License Now To Avoid Potential Arrest, Says Felder

Having been called upon many times to help constituents who were jailed for inadvertently driving with suspended licenses, State Senator Simcha Felder is once again offering to

help motorists avoid possible arrest. Over the years, Felder’s office has been inundated with requests to assist motorists who get pulled over for minor traffic violations, and are found to be driving with suspended licenses. In many cases, people simply miss the Department of Motor Vehicles’ official suspension notice in their mail, and have no idea that their license has been suspended until they are subject to a traffic stop.

“At that point, there is no choice except to go through the legal system,” said Felder. “It is traumatic, stressful, and very expensive to resolve, but it can all be avoided entirely by checking your driver’s license at my office, for free.”

Should any problems be found, Felder’s office is ready to step in to help drivers take corrective actions.

Motorists can also check their own records on the DMV website, www.dmv.ny.org

Adams Includes Billions in City Budget on Migrant Spending

Despite his repeated cries that migrant spending is bankrupting the city, Mayor Eric Adams has allocated $4.7 billion in funding to aid asylum seekers who have flocked to New York for fiscal year 2025, which began on June 24.

An op-ed that appeared in the New York Post described the many services that the city is bankrolling to serve the influx of thousands of migrants, including case management, child care, security guards, personal laundry pick up and delivery, and food, among others. In addition to benefiting asylum seekers themselves, the plan has also created financial opportunities for thousands of workers and vendors whose economic viability depends on the ongoing crisis.

Adams remains committed to opening additional shelters to accommodate the continuing stream of migrants who have been flocking to the Big Apple, and his budget includes no mention of a deadline for migrant spending, which has the city cutting back severely on the services it provides to its citizens. Writer Nicole Gelinas describes the billions being allocated to serve asylum seekers as “an avertable disaster,” one that Adams helped create by continuing to offer a minimum of 30 to 60 days of paid shelter to all migrants.

Catskills Hatzalah Expands Fleet With Two New Ambulances

The thousands of people who will start heading upstate in the days ahead can feel confident in quick response times for medical emergencies, with Catskills Hatzalah adding a pair of state-of-the-art ambulances to its fleet.

Hamodia reported that the four-wheel-

drive vehicles were purchased with funding secured by Assemblywoman Aileene Gunther, whose district spans both Sullivan and Orange counties. They will be housed in the recently constructed Bloomingburg garage, and will be used by the dozen Hatzalah members who live nearby, to serve the Catskills region.

Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein was on hand in Bloomingburg as Hatzalah unveiled the new vehicles. He presented Gunther with a Hatzalah appreciation award, crediting his Assembly colleague for her tireless advocacy on behalf of her constituents.

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Hadibros To Be Posted in Louisiana Public School Classrooms

Hoping to instill a sense of morality in its students, Louisiana has passed a law that will require every public school in the state to post the Aseres Hadibros in every classroom.

Signed into effect on June 19, the law would require postersized signs with an easily readable font to be placed in all classrooms, from kindergarten up, and in state-funded universities.

“If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start with the original lawgiver, which was Moses,” said Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry.

The signs will be paid for with donated funds and are intended to show that the Aseres Hadibros are foundational components of both state and national government. Similar laws are also being considered in Texas, Oklahoma and Utah.

Pledging to bring “common sense back to our classrooms,” Landry said he not only anticipates being sued over the signs, but is looking forward to facing the potential legal challenges.

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Gavi is wheeled into the OR for his transplant. He and Debbie say Nishmas immediately before the actual surgery, and then Debbie, her mother and her mother-in-law settle in for a long wait.

Despite the fact that I knew to expect a nineto fifteen-hour surgery, by eleven in the morning I was feeling antsy. There are only so many hours one can sit in a surgical waiting room. At this point, I’d clocked seven hours.

Finally, at 1:15 p.m., a doctor came through the swinging doors into the now bustling waiting room. He scanned the room and said, “Goldberg?”

I began shaking. For the first time since the beginning of the operation, I felt a surge of anxiety. My mother and mother-in-law hung back as I went over to the doctor.

“Surgery’s over,” he said. “It looks like it was successful. He’ll be moved up to the ICU in the next 30 minutes, and in about an hour, they’ll let you in to see him for a few minutes. After you see

him, go home. Rest. There are long weeks ahead of you. Anyway, he’s going to be sedated until tomorrow.”

An hour later, I was allowed into the ICU to see Gavi. “She can come too,” the nurse said, nodding towards Gavi’s mother, who wanted to see her son just as badly as I wanted to see my husband. We walked into the ICU — an unfamiliar world filled with beeps and monitors and muted groans. As soon as we saw Gavi, both of us started crying. He was intubated and sedated, a thin sheet covering him, with multi tudes of wires and tubes snak ing out in every direction. I said Nishmas, crying my way through the words. Then we were asked to leave.

“Straight to bed with you, Debbie,” my mother-in-law said, her hand gentle on my shoulder. She brought me to her house and sent me off to sleep.

I entered the bedroom where we had been when the call came in just 24 hours earlier. I lay down in bed and closed my eyes, but I was too uptight to sleep. I felt the adrenaline coursing through my system. I tossed and turned for a while, and then called the ICU for an update.

“No news,” the nurse answered briskly. “Everything looks good. You can come this evening, if you’d like, during visiting hours, but he’ll likely

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be sedated until tomorrow.”

I tried to sleep again. My boys were safe at my sister-in-law’s house. My mother-in-law was sleeping in her room down the hall. Gavi was being taken care of, and he wasn’t aware that I wasn’t there. I tried to relax enough to sleep. Eventually, I dozed off for a few minutes.

My ringing phone woke me.

“He’s doing so well that we’ll be waking him soon,” the nurse reported. “You can come if you’d like.”

Of course I liked. I dashed out of bed and got to the hospital just as Gavi was waking up. Suddenly, the sleep deprivation, adrenaline, excitement and fear of the last day caught up with me, and I felt unsteady, dizzy, as if everything was draining out of me. I grabbed onto the nearest nurse, feeling like I was going to faint. She set me in a chair, raised my legs, and gave me a drink. When I felt a little more steady, I looked at Gavi. He was totally out of it, and kept opening and closing his eyes. I tried talking to him. He seemed to be drifting in and out of consciousness.

“WE DID IT,” I WHISPERED TO HIM. “YOU DID IT. WE’RE PAST THE SURGERY. YOU’VE HAD THE TRANSPLANT.” THE WORDS FELT UNBELIEVABLE EVEN AS I SAID THEM

I stopped him. “Doctor, please,” I said, a note of hysteria creeping into my voice, “Is everything okay?”

He brushed past me without replying. I waited, my nerves taut. Someone wheeled a portable ultrasound machine into the room.

“Can I come in?” I asked desperately.

“They’ll talk to you soon,” a nurse replied over her shoulder.

I waited anxiously. At about seven o’clock, the doctor came out to talk to me. He looked grim.

“We need to do an urgent CT,” he said. “The blood flow to one area of the liver seems to be impaired.” He didn’t have any answers to my questions. “We’ll know more after the CT.”

It took several nurses nearly forty minutes to transfer Gavi onto a portable bed with portable monitors and machines. When he was ready to go down, they allowed me to accompany him, but I had to wait outside during the actual scan. Again, I strained to hear what they were saying. After a while, I clearly heard Dr. Cohen barking, “Get him back into the OR; there’s a blockage.”

A rush of frenzied activity followed. Gavi’s gurney was rushed past me.

“We did it,” I whispered to him. “You did it. We’re past the surgery. You’ve had the transplant.” The words felt unbelievable even as I said them.

Two doctors, including our surgeon Dr. Cohen, walked in then and asked me to wait outside while they examined Gavi. I remained outside the cubicle and strained to make out what they were saying. To my consternation, they seemed to be discussing doing a CT scan and an ultrasound. Was this par for the course post-transplant? I had no one to ask.

Finally, one of the doctors came out, speaking on his phone, and tried to walk past me.

“Come,” Dr. Cohen called to me. “I’ll explain on the way.”

As Dr. Cohen and I jogged down the hallway to keep up with the gurney, he said, “There’s a blockage in a major artery, and it’s an absolute miracle that we found this. His life is in immediate danger.” He glanced at me as we continued running down the hospital corridor. “We checked him at four o’clock,” he said, “and everything looked good. I was leaving the hospital when I suddenly got a bad feeling about him. Something was telling me to go check Goldberg, that something wasn’t right. I can’t explain the feeling, but I came back and decided to do another ultrasound. Now we’re going to try and save his life.”

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You want an oozing cheesy lunch without putting too much thought to it. You want a simple supper that your kids will delight in. Whatever the reason, grilled cheese provides the goods.

Use the amounts listed as suggestions rather than rules; the size of bread varies, and some prefer more or less of certain components. I used sourdough bread to up my grilled cheese game; use whatever bread your family will enjoy most.

PB&J GRILLED CHEESE

Talk about kid-friendly! This blend of salty, tangy and sweet makes this sandwich a joy for all ages.

INGREDIENTS

8 slices bread

4 T. peanut butter

4 T. strawberry jam

4 oz. shredded cheddar cheese (I like to use a combination of Mozzarella and cheddar)

3 T. butter or margarine

DIRECTIONS

1. Spread peanut butter on one side of a slice of bread. Spread jam on one side of the other slice.

2. Top jam with shredded cheddar cheese.

3. Place peanut butter-covered bread over top of jam/cheese bread to form a sandwich.

4. Spread butter (or margarine) on the outsides of the bread slices.

5. Heat a pan over medium-low heat. Place sandwiches in the pan. Cook the sandwiches low and slow for about 3 to 4 minutes on one side.

6. Carefully flip the sandwiches to the other side, and continue to cook for another 3 to 4 minutes or until they’re golden brown and crispy on the outside and the cheese has melted on the inside.

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FRIED MOZZARELLA SANDWICHES

These sandwiches require a bit more prep than your standard grilled cheese, but they are well worth the effort.

INGREDIENTS

2 sticks butter, softened, divided

2 T. garlic powder

2 T. dried parsley

Kosher salt

8 slices bread

16 slices Muenster cheese

½ cup Wondermills all-purpose flour

4 eggs, lightly beaten

1 cup panko breadcrumbs

1 cup marinara sauce

DIRECTIONS

1. Combine 1½ sticks butter, garlic powder, parsley and a pinch of salt in a small bowl. Mix well.

2. Spread a thin layer of the butter mixture onto each slice of bread.

3. Place two slices of cheese onto half of the bread slices. Close the sandwiches.

4. Prepare three shallow bowls, one with the flour, one with the eggs and one with the breadcrumbs. Season the breadcrumbs with a pinch of salt.

5. Dredge each sandwich really well in the flour, eggs and breadcrumbs.

6. Heat two frying pans over medium-low heat. Add 2 tablespoons of butter to each pan, and allow it to melt.

7. Once the butter is hot, add two of the sandwiches to each pan. Cook low and slow until golden on one side, about three minutes.

8. Carefully flip the sandwiches. Cook for another 3 minutes until golden.

9. Serve with marinara sauce

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INSIDE-OUT GRILLED CHEESE

A fun and irresistible twist on good old grilled cheese.

INGREDIENTS

Bread of choice

Shredded cheese of choice

Softened butter

DIRECTIONS

1. Spread a thin layer of butter on one side of each slice of bread.

2. Turn one slice over, and place shredded cheese on top. Top with second bread, buttered side up.

3. Heat a pan to medium-low, and fry your sandwiches low and slow until deeply golden and crispy on both sides.

4. Spread a thin layer of cheese on the outside of each sandwich. Flip the sandwich and fry for a few seconds until the cheese is crisp. Repeat with the other side.

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What’s the water like for you?

Some of us swim like fish and lean into this wet and friendly element with trust and enjoyment.

Others are the wistful onlookers who retreat to beach chairs, watching said fish with both longing and terror. Water is their monster and they stay far away, lest it sweeps them into its terrifying depths.

Enter Zahava Shapiro, founder and owner of WaterWaze Swim Academy. Crusader for water safety and campaigner to end drowning incidents worldwide, Zahava is committed to teaching every person how water works so they can be comfortable and safe in any body of water. A tall order, if you ask anyone afflicted with aquaphobia.

I’d imagine a person with these credentials and this mission spends three-quarters of her waking hours in the pool. In actuality, Zahava describes herself as a four-burner person who has multiple things cooking at any given moment.

“I’m a volunteer EMT, CPR instructor, high school teacher and college professor,” Zahava says. “Year-round, I’m in the pool once a week, and from June to August, around four days a week. I focus my energies on training swimming instructors because I believe every instructor should learn to teach how to swim using a gentle approach that focuses on comfort before skill.”

According to Zahava, many instructors are self-taught and don’t know where to get information from to further their education. This leaves them with gaps in their education.

“I know this,” she adds, “because that’s what I was like fifteen years ago. I just didn’t know any better. That’s the reason I developed the WaterWaze Swim Academy Instructor course.”

Zahava herself teaches swimmers of all ages, from three-month-old infants to adults in their nineties. She believes that in order to completely eradicate drowning incidents, every adult should learn to be safe and free in deep water. This ensures they’ll send their kids to swimming lessons as well. After all, why would someone send their children to learn to swim if they themselves find the water to be terrifying and unpleasant. The Gemara (Kiddushin 29a) adds to the list of obligations a father has the requirement to teach his son to swim; this is a lifesaving skill every person should learn.

Zahava’s Story

An average day will find Zahava busy with intake, bookkeeping, developing her swim curriculum, training with various coaches to further her knowledge, and checking in with her swim instructors. This schedule is quite the staid turnaround from the seventy-hour workweeks she used to keep, which included twelve-hour shifts in the pool, five days a week!

After years of identifying as a workaholic, Zahava took a step back and now calls herself semi-retired. Her penchant for running headlong at challenges is how a girl with a near-drowning experience in her past evolved into a swim school owner.

“I was a city kid with limited exposure to the pool,” Zahava says, “and totally unfamiliar with how water works. On the first day of camp, the lifeguard had us stand on the pool steps while she rattled off the safety rules. I was bored and walked straight down into the water until it was over my head. And then I just stood there, frozen in place, without knowing what to do as the water flooded my nose, mouth and throat. This is something I always tell my instructors and the lifeguards I train: Drowning is silent and easy to miss if you’re not watching the pool carefully.”

Amazingly, Zahava went on to love the water. Her residual trauma showed up in her reliance on a nose clip for almost a decade after the incident, due to the fear of water going up her nose again. Despite all that, she became a WSI (Water Safety Instructor) with the Red Cross at the young age of sixteen. However, it would take more time and experience for her to learn the workings of the water in-depth (pun not intended).

“Before I learned how to teach fearful adults, I didn’t fully understand how water works and how our beliefs about the water affects our pool experience. I traveled to California and trained in Miracle Swimming, a course that teaches you how to be present in your own body and not panic when in the water. After teaching for twenty plus years, I can say that staying present in my own body allows me to access information and be the best teacher I can be.”

Weekends as a post-grad saw Zahava teaching swimming at a local swim school while keeping up an office job during the week. Slowly, swim instruction morphed from a fourth part-time job to a full-time business because that’s how Zahava takes things — all the way to the end.

“I never planned this; I always said I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up!” Zahava shares. “But like many of my other jobs, Hashem threw this into my lap. My father always told me if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. Cliché or not, I took that at face value, and that’s how I got to where I am today.”

Building WaterWaze

When she was first hired as a swim instructor, Zahava knew she was lacking information. This was back in the day when the library was the go-to place for research. The librarian directed her to the appropriate section where I found a total of one book on swimming titled Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

“I contacted the author Terry Laughlin,” Zahava continues, “and arranged to get certified as a Total Immersion

Coach with his wife and daughter. (At the time, there were no options for women-only classes.) Then I traveled all over the country to visit and train with different swim schools. I picked what I liked from each approach, and merged it with my own discoveries to develop my own program. That’s how the WaterWaze Swim Instructor course came to be. It includes information and philosophies from Total Immersion, MNRI and Swim Angelfish. The course is designed for anyone who is passionate about teaching swimming. I’ve even had people take the course just so they could learn how to teach their kids to swim.”

In the pool, Zahava’s love of people and fun comes to the fore.

“There’s never a dull moment,” she says, “because I have another student every twenty-five minutes. It’s extremely gratifying to teach one-on-one, and I love the fact that disciplining is not my job. I get to give each child a once-a-week experience of feeling like a rock star.”

Zahava and her students have a total blast turning the notso-fun incidents into something silly. For example, a kid swallowing water gets Zahava to open her eyes and say, “Oh my, did you make a bracha?” or, “Could you leave some for the next kid, please?”

“The freedom from needing to address the behavioral issues from a chinuch perspective gives me so much opportunity,” she explains. “Unless there’s a safety issue, we try to keep everything light and fun.”

Stroke by Stroke

“It’s so fulfilling to teach people a lifesaving skill,” Zahava says. “But even twenty years and a thousand students later, I still get students in the pool who show up with challenges I’ve never seen before. The feedback in swim instruction is immediate, with very obvious cause and effect, and it’s a constant learning experience.”

What would you say is the primary goal of swim instruction?

My goals in swim instruction are twofold: I want the kids to be safe in the water, and I also want them to love the lessons. These goals are equally important. If a child learns to swim but they hate the pool, it’s a tremendous loss.

What’s considered a benchmark for having achieved safety in water?

Being able to hang out in the deep water for ten minutes. If you can chill out for ten minutes while doing whatever you want, including frontfloating, back-floating, spinning around, treading and chatting without getting tired, then we consider you to be safe in the water.

Isn’t treading the barometer of water safety?

No. You’ll see kids who finish their two minutes of treading for their deep water test and rush to the pool wall because they don’t feel safe. But I’ve never had a kid who could hang out in the deep for ten minutes but couldn’t tread. The WaterWaze program prioritizes comfort before skill. Swimmers should be calm in deep water before they learn to tread, and once they feel calm, treading comes naturally.

Why is treading used as the barometer of safety in pools everywhere, then?

I believe it’s because of time constraints. Camps have to test so many kids in a limited amount of time.

When’s the best time to start swim instruction for a child?

If you have a pool, you can start as early as three months, but definitely don’t wait past three years. If you don’t have a pool, five or six years is a great age.

Zahava believes that fear of water should be healed, not managed. Managing your fear means pushing yourself to go on despite the pain and doing the dreaded thing 100 times. But it doesn’t get easier at time 101. Anyone who’s tried to teach themselves to swim as an adult knows this. Healing fear starts with changing your belief system about the water and getting to the root of what’s holding you back.

“We teach swimming one tiny step at a time because — and this is a strong belief of mine — the only reason you haven’t learned to swim is because steps were skipped. And learning to swim is a sequence of hundreds of small steps. This is done gently, with no projected timeframe, no rushing and no pushing. I’ve had people try to beat this system, and it never works. Ultimately, I want the people I teach to think of swimming like sitting on a chair — a completely neutral action with no negative feelings attached to it. This is especially important when it comes to older girls who will soon be graduating high school.”

Zahava’s way of hiring and teaching instructors is also refreshingly different and reminiscent of behavioral health clinics in how she looks out for the good of each child who will be taught at WaterWaze.

“My methodology is super important to me,” Zahava says, “and I feel responsible for every instructor on the WaterWaze team. I touch base with my instructors on a weekly basis to discuss every student’s progress and help troubleshoot any roadblocks that may come up. Although I’m not in the water with all of my clients, I’m still hands-on and very much involved.”

For Zahava, it isn’t enough for her instructors to understand how the water works. They also need to have an in-depth understanding about how kids operate from both an emotional and behavioral standpoint.

“I look for a very specific personality when hiring lifeguards and instructors,” Zahava shares. “They need to have the ability to accept constructive feedback. And they must either understand swimming very well, or love kids to bits. Then I can fill in the gaps with one-on-one coaching.”

Instruction with kids is a team effort at WaterWaze. Sometimes parents are bogged down by other stressors in their life when they bring their kids to the pool, ranging from issues with finding a babysitter to the financial stress of paying for lessons. Zahava cautions them about that stress fil-

Red Flags in Swim Instruction

Teaching a child to swim is a Torah requirement and a lifetime gift to them. How can you know if your child’s swimming instructor is not qualified enough?

The instructor is teaching more than two children at once without a lifeguard around.

They guarantee your child will learn to swim in a set amount of lessons.

They don’t get in the pool, or avoid getting their face or hair wet.

You don’t see obvious progress in the first few lessons.

There is a lack of progress, and the instructor isn’t having an open discussion with you.

The instructor doesn’t spend time getting your child comfortable with their face in the water.

Be wary of the use of kickboards, puddle jumpers or any other flotation device in context of a swim lesson.

Any instructor that throws your child into the deep end without their consent should be banned from the industry.

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tering down to the kid and negatively affecting their swimming lessons. She believes nothing should get in the way of the child’s chance to have a positive experience at the pool.

It seems that nothing gets in the way of Zahava’s positive experience in the pool, because when I ask her, she says that every type of student is her favorite student.

“Kids bring out my fun side, and I get so much fulfillment knowing that I’m giving them an experience that’ll stay with them for life,” Zahava says. “Adults benefit on a totally different scale; it’s amazing to witness their transformation from neardespair to the belief that they could actually heal their fears. So many of my adult students have told me that learning to swim has changed their life. One busy bubby with a super-hectic schedule told me, ‘I’m so glad I didn’t learn this when I was a kid, because I wouldn’t have had this experience as an adult, and I don’t remember the last time I had this much fun!’”

At the end of the day, each client of Zahava’s brings out her passion for her work. Teaching them is a hugely gratifying experience. She has taught a child who had to be resuscitated after a drowning incident, an opportunity to heal trauma that she considers a privilege.

“I especially love it when multiple generations of the same family end up doing lessons with us,”Zahava adds. “It’s an organic process; grandmothers are thrilled with the lessons and bring their granddaughters, and daughters bring their mothers because they see their children learning.”

All that positivity and confidence around water extends far beyond Zahava’s lessons; that’s when she knows she’s done her job. Because when it comes to water, knowledge inspires confidence, and confidence leads to safety — Zahava’s ultimate goal.

Zahava Shapiro can be reached at 551-775-2745.

An In-the-Body Experience

“A client of mine came to heal her fear of water and learn to swim,” Zahava shares. “The woman told me, ‘I don’t remember exactly what happened to me. I was four years old, and something happened at the beach with my aunt.’

“The adult swim course focuses on teaching clients to be present in their own body. After a few lessons, the woman sent me a text in all caps: I REMEMBER EVERYTHING.

“She’d been at the beach with her aunt, and slipped underwater. Her aunt had to pull her out. During the car ride home, the girl overheard her aunt saying, ‘Let’s not tell her parents.’

“There were lots of tears, but this client graduated her lessons deeply grateful for the healing process, saying she’d gotten a gift.”

Monsey

Catskills

A close-up look at pool construction and trends

SUMMER!

Getting Started

Ice cream and sunshine and tans… and pools! Probably one of the most exciting scenes of summer is the rippling blue water of a swimming pool in the summer heat.

This week, Mr. Shia Levy of Five Star Pools tells us all about pool construction, safety and maintenance, and everything else that goes into making pools the highlight of the summer.

So, let’s dive right in (sorry, I had to).

“I was always passionate about construction,” Mr. Levy says, “and I knew that I wanted a career in construction one day.”

When it was time to make a parnassah after he got married, Mr. Levy consulted with his brother, who was already in the construction field, and was told that there was a big demand for good pool contractors.

“I advertised that week,” Mr. Levy continues, “and the calls started coming in.”

How It Begins

Building a new pool is a big, and expensive, undertaking. When new customers reach out to Five Star Pools, the first step is to sit down

with them and discuss their needs and wants.

“We want to hear what they have in mind: what size pool they want, what shape, what kind… there are a lot of options when it comes to building a pool,” Mr. Levy explains.

What will the pool be used for? Will it be used mostly for exercise and doing laps, or for family and friends? That will make a difference when planning the size and shape of the pool. The property size and the client’s budget will also come into play.

The next step is to choose what material to use when finishing the pool. Most customers choose the usual vinyl liner, which is simple, inexpensive and easily customized. Those building larger pools often choose gunite, which is concrete with a tile border. Gunite is considered more luxurious; it’s stronger and can take more abuse, which is why it’s often used in commercial pools.

Important Safety Tips

• Children should always be under supervision in the pool area and should be taught not to approach the pool on their own.

• Even adults should only swim with supervision or with a swim buddy. Never go into the pool if no one else is around.

• Always take a phone along with you when entering the pool area.

• Never dive headfirst into the shallow end of the pool.

Once the plans are drawn up, permits need to be obtained. Once that’s done, they can start digging.

“We give the client a schedule be-

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fore we start” Mr. Levy says, “and let them know how long the entire process will take. For vinyl-lined pools, it’s six to eight weeks, and for gunite pools, it’s more like two to three months. But once we give them a timeline, we try our best to stick to it and get it done on time.”

Five Star Pools services many different counties in New York, including Brooklyn, Rockland, Westchester as well as counties further upstate.

“In Monsey, we do big pools in backyards. In Brooklyn, we’ve been doing a lot of spas with Jacuzzis and hot tubs that fit into smaller spaces. We also do a lot of commercial pools in Brooklyn; those are more common there than the backyard pools you see in suburban areas.”

Cool Tech To Cool You Down

Pools today are a lot more advanced than they used to be, with new technology that makes swimming even safer and more fun.

“There are now special monitors, similar to Ring doorbells, that you can install near the pool. They send you a notification anytime someone’s going into the pool,” Mr. Levy explains.

There are even apps available that allow you to set your pool’s temperature remotely.

Perhaps one of the coolest advances is a new kind of pool cover, which automatically rolls over the pool and transforms it into a floor so it’s part of the surrounding patio. With this cover, there’s no chance of falling into the water, and an additional advantage is that it keeps the pool free of falling leaves or bugs, and also keeps the heat trapped while it’s not in use.

“It’s something we’ve been installing more recently,” Mr. Levy says. “Even though it’s expensive, many families splurge on this automatic cover to ensure their children’s safety.”

Pool Trends

Along with developing technology, pool trends have also evolved. Lately, Five Star Pools has been installing lots of cold plunges as this health trend gains popularity. They often install it as a section of the pool with an attached hot tub, so people can go from a 40 or 50-degree cold plunge to a warm hot tub.

Deep ends are not as popular as they once were; many pool owners choose to forgo a deep end and instead plan for the entire pool to measure only four or five feet deep. And even people who do own a pool with a deep end are choosing to skip a diving board; the addition of a diving board raises the pool’s insurance and isn’t really necessary when it comes to having good old-fashioned fun in a pool.

Five Star Pools construction site

After construction

“In fact, you can probably have more fun in a shallow pool, since you’re able to walk around and play games,” Mr. Levy adds.

Another fun option when planning a pool is extending the first step to make space for lounge chairs or a shallow kiddie pool.

Memorable Projects

Pools also have their fair share of unique designs.

“We’re currently working on a pool for a special needs camp,” Mr. Levy shares. “It’s a wheelchair-accessible pool, which means it has a beach entry.”

To accommodate the children’s physical needs, the end of the pool imitates a shore by having the floor gradually slope down. This way, children who need assistance walking or are in wheelchairs can easily be brought in and out of the water.

“This project is very meaningful to us,” Mr. Levy reflects. “It will give children with special needs the ability to have fun in the water, just like everyone else.”

The largest pool they can build is 200 square feet in size, but because of the staggering cost of building such a pool, clients who need a large pool often split it into two pools, with each one measuring 30 feet by 65 feet, which Five Star has done for several commercial projects.

What Should People Know?

Having a pool makes for special family memories and lots of good times, but there’s a lot of work that goes into owning a pool as well. What should people know before they install a pool?

“People need to remember that work doesn’t stop once the pool is installed,” Mr. Levy says. “Water is a living thing that needs ongoing upkeep. Pools need more than just chlorine; a blend of a few chemicals is necessary to keep the water clean. Then there’s the daily cleaning that’s important, things like covering the pool when it’s not in use, clearing out leaves and bugs that fall in, things like that.”

But if maintained properly and safely, a pool will definitely feature in a family’s favorite memories.

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A backyard swimming pool is the ultimate summertime luxury. Or is it?

The Boro Park View spoke to three pool owners to hear more, and to find out if having your own pool is as blissful as its hype.

Monsey, NY

near Lakewood, NJ

New City, NY

ZISSY

SHANI

SIVI SEKULA

Safety First

The first thing that comes to a Yiddishe mamme’s mind when it comes to swimming pools of any kind is naturally the question of safety. What kind of safety measures do these women have in place? Zissy from Monsey has one daughter who is still a toddler. Shani, who lives near Lakewood, and Esther from New City, have children of all ages. Their pools are surrounded by high walls with locks on the gates that can’t easily be opened by young children. The pool areas boast large signs with Hatzolah’s phone number in case of emergency, and Shani’s sign also contains instructions for the Heimlich maneuver. However, all three women agree that pool safety goes way beyond the locked gate.

Zissy’s daughter, who will be getting swimming lessons this summer, is always dressed in a puddle jumper as well as a special life vest that flips over when she’s in the pool area. Of course, Zissy never leaves her in the pool area alone. Esther agrees that puddle jumpers are a must for little kids.

THE BIGGEST SAFETY PRECAUTION SHANI TAKES IS THE FEAR THAT SHE INSTILLS IN HER KIDS FROM A YOUNG AGE

Shani says that the biggest safety precaution she takes is the fear that she instills in her kids from a young age.

“From when they’re very little, they know that the pool is a no-go zone,” she says. “I warn them that if they ever go into the pool area without permission, they’re banned from the pool for the rest of the season. If it sounds like I’m very strict about this, it’s because I definitely am! I also teach them that at the pool, they must listen to me! For instance, when I say it’s time to come out, there’s zero arguing. If a kid stays in the pool by themselves, it’s just as bad as entering the pool without my knowledge. Baruch Hashem, I hardly ever have to reinforce the rules because my kids all know to obey them.”

Another of Shani’s rules applies to her own family as well as to groups who rent her pool or when her kids’ friends come over. “No one is allowed in the pool area without adult supervision. That means that if someone arrives early, they’re not al-

lowed to enter the pool area, not even just to change into swim clothes. Also, the adult in charge has to be the last one out.”

Esther would love to install a new fence, but the one she has in mind is very expensive. “My friend who lives nearby has this double alarm system for her pool. One alarm sounds the entire time the pool fence is open. The other one goes off when something is in the water, and it also sends a notification to her phone.”

Another safety factor is giving children professional swimming lessons at a young age. Shani’s kids are confident deep-water swimmers by age six, the same age her nieces and nephews are just starting swimming lessons. But even her babies are able swimmers.

“By the time my babies are one or two years old, they can already jump into the pool and put their head into the water,” she says.

Zissy, on the other hand, says her two-year-old daughter didn’t take to the water straightaway.

“My daughter didn’t love the pool last year. I tried to teach her myself, but she got scared.” She has advice for parents of kids who are anxious in the water. “You can nudge them a little bit, but it isn’t worth it to push too hard. They need to feel safe to feel comfortable.”

Shani has a private instructor teach her children how to swim, starting at age four. By the time they’re five years old, they can swim in the deep end, but she says it takes another year for

them to be fully confident there.

“Being a deep-water swimmer is not only about knowing how to do the swim stroke,” Shani explains. “It also has to do with the physical strength that you need in order to swim the length of the pool and do the back float. So even if they know the skill, I find that I only feel confident for them to actually be strong enough to stay in the deep water for a long time is when they’re six years old.”

Free Entertainment?

What’s the best part of owning a pool? I figure that the answer to that would be having free entertainment available all the time. Well, it turns out that owning a pool isn’t exactly free, but we’ll get to that later. Shani does agree that having a pool means that there’s no need for a full-blown getaway in the summer. She tells her children, “Why do we need to go to the country? There you’ll need to share the pool with so many other people!”

some, healthy activity.”

Esther makes a similar point. “When I was a kid, I always begged my mother to take me swimming, but she wasn’t so keen on asking people for favors. I make sure to tell my relatives and friends that they shouldn’t hesitate to ask. I’m very grateful that I’m able to help them entertain their kids.”

The benefit of exercise comes up as well. Before buying her home, Zissy liked to go swimming regularly. Now that she has a pool, she swims several times a week during the summer. It’s also a great form of exercise for her hus-

Zissy loves spending time with her daughter in the pool. In general, she says, it allows for so much family time. “I work from home, so I can spend hours in the pool with my daughter. Plus, I get to host my mother, sisters and friends.”

Shani concurs. “We get to do a lot of sharing and hosting because we have a pool. We’re always the ones hosting the party or the Sunday afternoon activity. The kids get to spend a lot of time with their cousins.”

Shani also adds that sharing a pool is a unique kind of chesed. “I always feel that after people go swimming, they’re so happy because of the endorphins released during exercising in the pool, which makes them excited and grateful. How grateful do you feel toward your dentist? There’s something about swimming that makes it a very happy, whole-

band.

“Everyone benefits from the exercise a pool provides,” Shani remarks. “One of my sons needed OT, and swimming regularly really helped strengthen his muscles.”

Esther is not a keen swimmer herself — “I don’t enjoy the whole bother of dressing and undressing” — but she appreciates that her husband gets his exercise by swimming daily. “It’s also amazing to see how a kid will come home from school in a bad mood, and then jump into the pool and let all that nervous energy out in the water. It’s such a great outlet!”

Play Hard, Work Harder

“Having a pool is not all fun, though,” Zissy says. “You have to make sure that the chemicals are balanced at all times and that the pool is properly main-

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A pool needs daily cleaning and regular chemical checks, which can be a full-time job if you do it yourself.

“Cleaning the pool is like having to take care of another baby,” Shani says. If there are trees nearby, the pool will need to be cleaned of leaves each morning. At the end of the day, the filters and skimmers (the openings in a pool that suck the water out) need to be cleaned as well. In total, that’s about an hour of cleaning every day! So no, not exactly fun.

Zissy breaks down the annual cost of her pool. “It’s about $2,500 a season for the maintenance, heating and chemicals, plus another approximately $500 for the water. Then there’s the added property taxes because we own a pool, which amounts to an extra $2,500 a year. And you always need to account for an unexpected expense; for instance, last year the pump broke, and we had to pay $800 for a new one.”

Last year, Esther paid her pool maintenance guy around $3,200. She estimates another $1,000 for water and heating costs, and more for unexpected extras.

Zissy’s and Esther’s husbands are handy and enjoy doing most of the maintenance like cleaning the pool and keeping the chemicals balanced themselves. If the chemicals are off balance, the pool may need to be kept out of order for a few weeks until the levels are rebalanced. Most people have a maintenance guy come every week to do the checks and a deep clean, but even so,

“CLEANING

“Before purchasing our house, we were warned about higher property taxes for homes with pools,” Esther says, “but I didn’t find that to be the case in New City, at least not in a significant way. Insurance is more expensive, though.”

Shani’s pool costs are also at around

THE POOL IS LIKE HAVING TO TAKE CARE OF ANOTHER BABY”

it’s necessary to clean the pool yourself every day.

Shani invested in a pool robot called a dolphin that cleans the floor of debris every night. Pool robots retail at $500 to $2,000.

“It was one of the best investments we made because it really keeps the pool very clean. We put it in at night, and when we take it out in the morning, we see that it has cleaned a lot of the smaller debris like sand, which the filters didn’t catch.” She still needs to clean the leaves out in the morning, though, and pays for professional weekly maintenance.

Still Waters Don’t Run Cheap

I figured that owning a pool costs more than most people think it does, but I didn’t realize just how much. After hearing about the necessary maintenance involved, I’m starting to get more of an idea of what owning a pool is all about.

the five thousand dollar mark, although she’s not sure how much extra she pays for property taxes in her New Jersey township. She also mentions that her pool area requires professional mosquito extermination, which adds to the overall costs. In addition to the necessary pool expenditures, Shani and Zissy both invest something extra into their pool each year. One year, Shani bought nice loungers, while Zissy bought an expensive heater.

I’m surprised to hear that water isn’t one of the larger expenses. Did you know that pools are rarely emptied?

“When we moved into our house, the pool was disgusting,” Zissy relates. “I thought we would have to empty it and refill from scratch, but nope! The same holds true at the beginning of every season. Even though the pool is covered with a tarp during the winter, the water still becomes gross. A few inches of water is emptied and then refilled, but most of the water stays. The pool is pumped with lots of chemicals, and it turns clear after a few days. It did take

“WHEN WE MOVED INTO OUR HOUSE, THE POOL WAS DISGUST-

“I

longer to clean when we first moved in — about two weeks.”

Balancing the Books

After learning about the expenses involved, it becomes clear why so many pool owners rent out their pools. In recent years, many cities and townships have made it illegal to rent out private pools, as well as other backyard amenities, like tennis or basketball courts. Fines can run into the thousands.

However, Zissy, Shani and Esther all rent out their pools, charging $65 to $80 per hour. The busiest days are Fridays and Sundays. Esther thinks these days are popular in the Monsey area because people come from the city for Shabbos, especially in the summer.

While some people are able to rent out their pools very frequently, thereby making a substantial income, these women agree that doing so takes a lot of work. It’s hard to keep track of scheduling, cancellations, advertising, and the surprising biggie — lost items. In general, it seems that renting out a pool is a hassle that pool owners only do in order to cover some of their expenses.

Pool rules are always important, all the more so when you’re renting it out. Zissy and Shani don’t allow renters to use their tubes and floats. All the women limit groups to around ten people, and an adult or lifeguard must be present.

“A bochur once called to rent our pool,” Esther relates. “I thought he was going to come with a couple of friends. You can imagine my shock

when an entire yeshiva showed up!”

Shani doesn’t rent out her pool as often as she used to. “When my kids were little, I would rent it out as often as I could, and we would just go swimming whenever it was available. Now that my children are older, the girls and boys swim separately, so we use the pool for longer hours.”

In addition to having a fence around their pool, Shani, Esther and Zissy all have privacy screens as well, which mitigates some tznius issues that crop up when letting strangers use their pools. Many pools are visible from second-story windows, but Zissy’s and Shani’s properties have trees that completely block their pools from view both from the house and their neighbors’ homes.

Esther closes all the window shades when other people are using her pool. Zissy does this as well even though the pool is not visible from her upper floor.

“It just gives renters a sense of privacy that they appreciate,” she says.

All three women purchased their homes with pools, as opposed to installing it themselves, and none of them had a pool as a requirement for a home purchase.

“The pool was an added bonus,” they all concur.

And yes, that bonus came with a few surprises, not all of them pleasant. But the verdict is unanimous — despite all the cleaning, maintenance and expenses, owning a pool is definitely worthwhile.

* Names have been changed

Refreshing

The Simple, Scary, Super Honest Summer Dictionary

If you had to pick one word to define summer, what would it be?

Fast

/fast/ adjective

The speed at which the house goes from “spotless” to “disastrous”

There are special laws in physics that cause June-July-August to zip by. Somehow, short winter days are endless, and long summer days never even have enough time in them to allow for the emptying of soggy bathing suits from camp bags or let another batch of homemade ice pops become solid enough to eat instead of drink. When June starts, eight weeks of camp seem to stretch ahead infinitely on the cal endar, and then suddenly, two days later, there’s only one week left.

But like every important rule, there is one exception: the one to three weeks after camp ends but before school starts. During this period, the laws governing the speed of time revert to normal, and no amount of “Go play outside,” or “Let’s turn on the sprinkler,” or even “Let’s go shopping for school supplies!” can make the hands on the clock point to bedtime.

— Sarah Seplowitz

Lemonade

/lemə’nād/ noun

The thing you make when life hands you lemons

Peace

/pēs/

noun

A sense of tranquility that usually lasts for the length of time a toddler pauses between breaths

We go to the mountains in the summer, and it feels like an escape to another world.

We leave behind our house: all the chaos of stuff, and all of the things we’re always using and taking out and getting dirty and having to clean and put away.

We leave behind our neighborhood: the hectic pace, the kids on the block, the social obligations, the squeeze for a parking spot that’s really too small and too far.

We leave the city: the square concrete towers locking us in, blocking the sky; the noise and traffic and pollution and endless urgency to keep moving, moving, moving.

We go to the bungalow. It’s small. It’s not going to look nice no matter what we do to it. We manage with the minimum, keep washing the same clothes, go to the grocery twice a week instead of every five minutes. It’s still busy, but we spend most of our time outside. The concrete and asphalt is replaced with grass, under a wide sky blocked only by the intermittent leafy canopy. The pace is slower. There’s less demand on the senses. You can absorb the sun. It’s just so much more simple and peaceful.

— Liba T.

My ultimate summer dream since childhood: swinging on a hammock in the backyard with lemonade and a book. I haven’t made it happen yet, though. But I try to savor those bits and pieces of lemonade that summer does give me.

— Malky Deutcher

Scramble

/’skramb(ə)l/ verb

A disordered mixture of things, especially in a mommy’s brain

When your child comes down with a fever or strep or has an allergic reaction, you call your pediatrician, right?

What about during summer vacation? Then, too?

Of course.

As the pediatrician’s office manager, guess what that means? That I don’t get a vacation. I’m there almost every day of the year, including on Erev Pesach until a couple of hours before the Seder, and on Erev Yom Kippur before Kol Nidrei.

But my kids’ schools didn’t get the memo that this mommy (and lots of other mommies) work all year round. Finding appropriate child care for my children over the months of summer vacation is a huge headache and is always a scramble.

— Tali Edelstein

Thud

/THəd/

noun

The sound your heart makes when your kids climb trees while wearing rollerblades

Thud goes the basketball. (“No ball in the house!”)

Thud goes the wet towel on the floor. (“Please hang up your stuff.”) goes the front door, slamming open. (No one ever closes it.)

my heart when I realize it’s been too long since I saw this or that kid and they’re probably fine but who knows where they are and what they’re up to.

Summer is just an endless series of thuds. At least they’re happy thuds, not the thud-thud-thud of a kid storming up the stairs after a long day at school.

— Esther King

Laundry

/’lôndrē/ noun

A self-regenerating organism with enormous growth capacity

Not to sound like a kvetch or anything, but for me, summer immediately conjures up the image of laundry. There’s all the swimming stuff that has to get washed all the time. The clothes that are always dirty from all the digging/ running/exploring. The camp smell that we can’t ever really seem to get rid of. The frantic rush to get everything washed before the Nine Days. The frantic rush to get everything washed after the Nine Days.

The clothes, the kids who sully them... It’s all a blessing. But in the summer I’ve learned why we call it a “laundry room.” It’s because it’s an entire room full of laundry.

— Shaina Shechter

Family

/’fam(ə)lē/ noun

The people in your life who love you, care about you, and drive you crazy

This might be unusual for Americans, who probably spent their childhood summers in camp. But I’m English, and “family” encapsulates the magical memories of my summers. Those holidays (vacations, in American English) with my parents and siblings are so wonderful to remember and reflect on.

When I saw my father — my busy, busy father (like most fathers are) — sit in the sundrenched garden learning with my brother, the sun dappling the seforim in front of them; when I saw my bochurish brothers hocking all their shitos with us amid numerous gesticulations as we hiked mountains and coastal paths; when we sang, played silly games, had even sillier competitions... Summer was all about family.

— N. Lieberman

Stitches

/stichIZ/ noun

A synonym for laughing, a popular coping mechanism “Ma?”

“Yeah?” Without turning around.

“You know that club house we’re building?”

“Yeah?” Still concentrating on my cooking.

“I’m not building it anymore.”

“Why not?”

Silence.

Finally, I turn around.

There’s a gash right in the middle of his forehead. He just stares right back at me.

All I can think to say is, “Why isn’t it bleeding?”

“One of the mothers who saw me outside washed it off so the blood wouldn’t drip into my eyes while I walked home.”

It needed stitches. Duh. We had just gotten his other stitches out three days ago. And it was still June. The summer had barely started.

There’s a lot of words I associate with summer. But for some reason, none of them are “relaxing” or “vacation.”

— Yitty Fried

Life

/līf/ noun

Existence. Outside school, at least

As a kid, I lived for summer. I hated school for many reasons, but I came alive in camp. Even years later, the association remains: summer is a time to be yourself, pursue your interests, and dig deep on curiosity.

— Breindel Stein

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FOR A FEW MONTHS, I TRIED TO LEARN HOW TO READ THE BOOK, BUT I COULDN’T FIGURE IT OUT.

ME TOO. WHO TOLD HIM NOT TO TELL, ANYWAY?

I THINK HE SHOULD TELL.

AT THE MORENO FARMHOUSE: IT’S GETTING LATE. WHERE IS EVERYONE? WHERE DID PEDRO GO? I SMELL TROUBLE…

I DON’T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING...

IT’S… IT’S…

WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS BOOK?

IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY. IT’S A SECRET PLACE THAT BELONGS TO THE MORENO FAMILY. THERE’S AN ANCIENT SHUL THERE, AND PEDRO’S GOLD MINE IS ALSO THERE, AND —

A SECRET MINE? I DON’T UNDERSTAND. TELL ME EVERYTHING, FROM THE BEGINNING.

ENTER.

DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE JEWISH?

MISHA... WHAT…?

RECAP: ASAI HELPS CURE ESTERINA, AND THE RUBINOV FAMILY AGREES TO LEAVE THE FARM. BUT JUST THEN, OFFICER ALVAREZ BURSTS INTO THEIR HOME AND ACCUSES ASAI AND YEHUDA RUBINOV OF SMUGGLING GOLD. ASAI BEGS PEDRO FOR HELP.

JEWS ARRIVED HERE IN 1502, DESCENDANTS OF THE MARRANOS FROM PORTUGAL.

WH… WHAT? HOW DARE YOU? I’M NOT —

IT SAYS SO RIGHT HERE, IN THIS BOOK.

AND HERE THEY FOUNDED THE FIRST JEWISH CITY. THE ONE YOU CALL THE FORBIDDEN CITY.

HIDE. SOME OF THEM ASSIMILATED.

BUT THE BRUTAL INQUISITION PURSUED THEM ALL THE WAY HERE, AS WELL. AND AGAIN, THEY HAD TO

SOME RAN AWAY, DISAPPOINTED BY THE COUNTRY THAT DID NOT OFFER THEM A SAFE HAVEN.

ONLY THREE FAMILIES REMAINED BEHIND. THEY KEPT TO THEMSELVES, DETERMINED TO KEEP THEIR JUDAISM ALIVE. THEY DECLARED: THERE ARE NO MORE JEWS IN ARGENTINA.

BITS OF WITS

SHEVY HOLLANDER

SPELL IT OUT

The Smart Car, the tiny two-seater that managed to find parking in the most impossible spaces, was branded to be “small in stature and big on economy.”

While the term is being used for hightech cars of today, those first Smart Cars were named for the two companies that collaborated to produce it: the Swiss company Swatch and MercedesBenz: Swatch Mercedes ART.

A HAPPY PLACE

The only pieces of evidence pointing to Boro Park’s original name are on the post office and one public school that goes by that name.

In 1887, Electus Litchfield, one of the first settlers who built a few cottages to develop this area, named it Blythebourne, which means “happy place” in Scottish. In 1898, when State Senator William H. Reynolds purchased a piece of land and expanded Blythebourne’s housing, he renamed it Borough Park. It is said he did so to tempt potential buyers to choose this area because of its suburban offerings. How things have changed!

Remember the tongue map you needed to memorize in school? Nowadays, chemosensory scientists say that tongues don’t actually have “taste zones,” with different sections picking up different tastes. The receptors that pick up sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami are distributed all over the tongue. It is true that the tip and edges of the tongues have a higher concentration of taste buds and may perceive certain tastes more intensely, but the difference is very small.

PIECE OF HISTORY

Boro Park circa 1890

FLOWER POWER

Use the following letters to list 5 words, each using 7 letters and up. Only the center letter must be used, and letters can be repeated. Bonus points for pangrams (words that use all seven letters).

V E T A C I D

Name a common English phrase for each item on the list that includes a word associated with this week’s theme. Theme: Water

Example: You’re a natural at it! — Like a duck to water

1. Feeling out of place

2. I’m in trouble!

3. Let bygones be bygones

4. An argument full of holes

5. You chewed off too much

6. Snuff the enthusiasm out

7. Family first

8. What you do unto others…

9. Roll along with the punches

10. Barely coping

WHICH STOCK WILL YOU PICK WHEN YOU SHOP CHOPSTICKS? SAY IT WITH A TWIST

ADD TO DICTIONARY

WORDS YOU MAY NOT KNOW THAT SAY THINGS IN A WHOLE NEW WAY

Horripilation (hȯ-ˌri-pə-ˈlā-shən): a bristling of the hair of the skin

Why say that you have goosebumps when you can use this awesome word to describe the same phenomenon that hints to the horror that caused it?

The number 172 can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. Some say it’s just an optical illusion. Can you find it?

ON THE HIGHEST POINT OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN IN GEORGIA, APTLY CALLED HIGH POINT AT 2,393 FEET, SEVEN OF THE U.S. STATES ARE VISIBLE: TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY, VIRGINIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA AND ALABAMA. RECORDED!

YOUR MIND

RANDOM! WHAT GETS WET AS IT DRIES?

Answer: A towel

We welcome local trivia, historical facts and photos, and Torah-themed riddle submissions. We’d also love to hear if you have additional answers to our puzzles! Email comments@thebpview.com to add your very own bits of wits. Please include your name and contact information. WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

BOGGLE TOURNAMENT

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1. Gather round the table to play a family game of Boggle, using this Boggle board.

2. Once you have a winner, fill out the form below in its entirety

3. Email the form to comments@ thebpview.com or fax to 718-4088771 by Sunday at midnight.

4. Two winners will be drawn each week, each of whom will receive a $15 gift card at Judaica Corner!

PLAYING RULES:

Find words on the board containing four letters or more. Letters of a word must be connected in a chain (each letter should be adjacent to the next either vertically, horizontally or diagonally), and each letter can only be used once in a given word. The following are not allowed in Boggle: Adding “s” to a word • Proper nouns • Abbreviations • Contractions • Acronyms

POINTS

HINT

Each Boggle board hides a word of nine letters or more!

G K A S H R C N T U S P I O D O A B R F E A L K E

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Full name of winner: _________________________________________________________

Amount of points:

Full names of competing players:

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NAME OF WINNER: Mommy

AMOUNT OF POINTS: 59

NAMES OF COMPETING PLAYERS: Simi

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$25-$30/Hourly Boro Park

Email RivkaL@ SwiftStaffingGroup.com

Medicaid Specialist

$65k-$70k BOE Remote

Bookkeeper

$65k+ Yonkers

Employee Engagement Manager

$55k-$60k Brooklyn

Career Specialist

$50k-$55k Brooklyn

Email Rutie@ SwiftStaffingGroup.com

Classifieds

PRIVATE HOUSE SHORT TERM

“Fully equipped furnished 7 bedroom house (18+beds) with linen/towels hotel style in Blooming Grove. Rent for days, weeks, or weekends. Breathtaking beautiful grounds. Call/text 845-2385633

LINDEN VACATION

Exlusive beautiful fullyfurnished house, all amenities included, 5 bedrooms sleeps 11+2 cribs 7 min walk to shuls Beautiful In ground Heated pool. Call/Text 601-675-2665/ Crownprincevilla@gmail. com

VACATION RENTAL

Vacation rental in North Miami. 3-bedroom with pool and jacuzzi!! Located next to shuls and kosher groceries! please call 9176354043

FLORIDA RENTAL

Beautiful 3 bedroom 3 bath villa with inground heated pool and hot tub available in North Miami, Price per night $339. Pictures available. Special discount for a week+. Call/Text 845327-7153

WEST PALM BEACH FLORIDA

For the best Real Estate deals call Mrs. Debby Schwartz

MIAMI BEACH FLORIDA

Carriage Club North, beautiful 2 bedroom, 2 bath, ground floor, for rent. Call: 347.499.0031

WEST PALM BEACH FOR SALE

Wellington M, 2 Bedroom apt. Ground Floor FOR SALE. Call: 347.760.0639

NORTH MIAMI FL 2-bedroom, 2-baths with private heated pool and spa. From $325 per night. Call/ Text: 917-382-4810, email: 1752nmb@gmail.com

HIGHLAND MILLS RENTAL (NEAR KJ)

Fully furnished beautiful spacious house. 4 bedrooms available daily, weekly and weekends. Linen, towels and all amenities. Beautiful private grounds, with heated pool. Near shul. Call/Text/ WhatsApp 917 705-9667

VACATION RENTAL

Beautiful large 8 BR / 5BA home. Sleeps 20+ Large game room. Private path to lake. Walk to supermarket & shuls. Weekend: $1,800 Extended Weekend: $2,500. 718-8658595

SUMMER RENTAL

Large 8 bedroom / 5 bath house in White Lake available for weekly rental. Private path to lake. $3,500 weekly

LOCH SHELDRAKE

Summer home 6BR / 2BAtop location on Hasbrouck A Rd. Near bungalow colonies, not in a colony. Full summer $18,000. 718-865-8595

SUMMER HOME

White Lake, across Lapidus bungalow colony. Gorgeous 8BR / 5BA home with fenced in yard & private path to lake. Full summer $25,000. 718865-8595

LINDEN-LUXE EXPERIENCE

New Pristine Cathedral Ceiling House in Linden. 5 bedrooms. 3 bathrooms. Stocked Playroom. Patio Seating. Swing Set. All Amenities included. 5 min to shul. Located near grocery. Heated pool sep hours avail nearby/option to rent. call/ text 718-989-1406.

SUMMER RENTAL MONSEY

Fun 6 Bedroom house with a private heated pool and jacuzzi for rent for weekends. Great outdoors with zipline, trampoline and firepit. Deck with grill. Located on a quiet dead end street close to shuls. call or text 845-664-5521

MIAMI BEACH RENTAL

2nd floor comfortable 2 bedroom condo for rent for Bi-weekly. Call for full summer special! Near Masada. Nice porch view. Call/text 845-325-8234 Mention unit 204

BNEI BRAK EXCHANGE APT

Bnei Brak family looking to exchange apartments with someone from Boro park 12&54st area for Sukkos for details call/text 347-526-8866

HOUSE RENTAL

SHORT TERM

Brand new luxurious

5 bedroom house in Woodburry Junction nexto KJ available for weekdays or weekends. Linen and towels included. Call/text 347-2323481.

MONSEY RENTAL

5 bedroom house in Chestnut Ridge, large yard with swingset available for July Call/ text 917-576-8555

AIRMONT RENTAL

Nice 4 bedroom private house, +living space +Georges pool and nice backyard, fully furnished, available for Shabossim/weekdays till July & after Aug. 347-831-6849

SUMMER RENTAL

Monsey 5 BDRM House available July 14-22 845.517.8409

MONSEY RENTAL

July 4th-17th (part/whole)

7 bedroom updated house (sleeps 12+), 4 bathrooms, large pool+, seperate living room, dining room, den. Near Rabbi Rottenberg and Scheiners. Cleaning help included 845-538-6302

Classifieds

SUMMER RENTAL/ SHABBOS NACHAMU

Monsey 5 BDRM House available Aug 15-Aug 25 845.517.8409

SOUTH FALLSBURG

6 bedroom beautiful house in South Fallsburg available to rent for shabbosim. 845791-0119/845-423-3030 Please call as I don’t have text

PINE ESTATE RENTAL

4 bedroom house in Pines Estate. For Shabosim Only. Pool on premises. Near Yeshiva. 845-791-0384 or 845-436-0438.

AIRMONT VACATION

Nice 4-bedroom private house +large stunning back yard, and much more..., fully furnished, prime location in Airmont, available for the summer. 845-570-7635

JOBS

BABYSITTER

School Year 2024- Babysitting

Group in BP girls school looking for full-time/ part-time babysitters for newborn/. young toddler group. Call 646-571-0765

BABYSITTER WANTED

Seeking a babysitter in my house late afternoon hours starting September. 9294643516

BABYSITTERS NEEDED

Chassidishe school seeking PT / FT babysitter. Please call 347-587-9454.

JOB RESUME

Need a great work resume? Resumes are what we do (new grads or experienced)! Call/text 845-554-5778 or email info@resumakerpro. com.

F/T OFFICE JOB

A Job That’s Just Right For You! Are you looking for a FT office job? Sync NY has a variety of excellent opportunities. Reach out today to speak to a recruiting expert. 7185879000. Submit resume today www.syncny. com or to info@syncny.com

NEED BABYSITTER

Looking for a babysitter in my home from 3-5 pm, p/u toddler from playgroup, receive oldest from bus. Located in 9th Ave. & 44th St. area. Excellent pay for the right candidate. Please email yidesfriedman613@gmail. com or text 845-324-1090.

PRESCHOOL TEACHER

Seeking a fabulous preschool teacher for a Yiddish speaking school, in a wonderful environment. Phone: 718-376-4555 Email: positionpreschool@gmail. com

PRESCHOOL TEACHER

Yeled V`Yalda Project REACH

Seeking after hours Yiddish speaking Preschool teacher. Must be willing to travel in Boro Park to service children in their homes. Must have HS diploma. Preschool experience a plus. Salary range $35,000-$40,000. With lots of flexibility. Email resume to: mhersh@yeled.org Or call: 718.514.8665”

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Preschool female teachers and assistant for boys cheder non licensed, Yiddish speaking a must. Great opportunity! Great pay! Email resume to jobopportunity@gmail.com

ASSISTANT TEACHER TODDLER CLASS

Enjoys teaching young children. Full Time Position in Boro Park. Exceptional environment and benefits. Childcare Provided. Salary range $35,000-41,000. Please email resume to: jobs@yeled. org Or call: 718.686.2422

YIDDISH SPEAKING PRESCHOOL

Seeking responsible, capable, young graduate as an assistant for the coming school year. Great opportunity to gain experience. please email resume to:fcw31270@gmail. com or call 718-686-0500

CO-TEACHERS NEEDED

Tots+Tykes daycare is looking to hire coteachers with high school diploma, working towards degree. Graduates welcome! Training and support given with no at home preparation necessary. Great heimish, positive work environment and benefits for the right candidate. Call 718-215-1625 ext. 2

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Preschool female teachers for boys cheder, Yiddish speaking a must. Great opportunity! Great pay! Email resume to jobopportunity341@gmail. com

DAYCARE TEACHER

Looking for teachers at a new Daycare in Williamsburg. Great benefits, and location! Call to inquire. 347-8605708.

TEACHER ASSISTANTS

Prominent Yeshiva in Flatbush, 2pm-4:30pm, Great Conditions. Excellent Salary! Email Resume: Chavyk@ yahoo.com Call: 718-377-5800 Ext. 130

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Heimishe Talmud Torah in Boro Park looking to hire nursery assistant teacher. Great Pay! Opportunity for growth.Please call347-4503265, leave a message.

Job ID: 1234

Looking for a BEST FRIEND

To assist with goals A 24 year old boy

Sunday 2:00PM 6:00PM & Evenings

Job ID: 1429

Looking for a BIG SISTER

To assist as a para A 6 year old girl

At Day Camp July 29-Aug 23

Job ID: 1532

Looking for a KIDS’ BEST FRIEND

To assist & take to shul A 9 year old boy Friday, Shabbos & Sunday

Job ID: 1650

Looking for a BEST FRIEND

To assist with Geometry studies A 17 year old girl

Daily after 6:00 PM

Job ID: 1799

Looking for a BEST FRIEND

To learn and play with A 10 year old boy

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Job ID: 1395

Looking for a BIG SISTER

To assist with daily routine A 5 year old boy

After School July & August

Job ID: 1180

Looking for a BEST FRIEND To assist A 15 year old girl Daily 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

Job ID: 3067

Looking for a BEST FRIEND

To assist A 11 year old girl

Friday afternoon & Shabbos morning

Job ID: 1872

Looking for a KIDS’ BEST FRIEND

To assist with chores A 5 year old girl

5:00pm - 7:00pm

Job ID: 1115

Looking for a KIDS’ BEST FRIEND

To assist A 5 year old girl

Shabbos 12:00PM - 1:30PM

Job ID: 1422

Looking for a BEST FRIEND

To assist with homework A 10 year old girl

Job ID: 1817

Looking for a HOMEWORK PARTNER

To accompany A 15 year old boy Mon. & Wed. 6:30pm-9:30pm Shabbos 8:30am - 11:30am

Job ID: 5299

Looking for a KIDS’ BEST FRIEND

To assist with tasks A 5 year old boy

Friday, Shabbos & Sunday

Job ID: 1210

Looking for a BEST FRIEND

To assist A 12 year old boy Daily 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Job ID: 1255

Looking for a EVENING FRIEND

Sun, Mon, Wed, & Thurs. 2 hours daily *SUMMER PARA NEEDED AS WELL* Staten Island

To assist A 12 year old girl

Job ID: 1590

Looking for a EVENING FRIEND

To assist with evening chores A 9 year old girl

Sun, Tues, & Thursday 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Classifieds

TEACHER ASSISTANTS

Yeled V`Yalda Head Start

Boro Park, Seeking Full Time Teacher Assistants. Must have a High School diploma. Excellent salary and benefits. Salary: $33,000-$38,000 depending on credentials. Send resume to: jobs@yeled. org Call: 718.686.2422

TEACHERS & ASSISTANTS

Chassidish preschool seeking warm and devoted teachers and assistants, with/ without degree. Passionate graduates welcome. Part time positions also avail. Email resume enhancedchinuch@gmail. com

JOBS AVAILABLE

Part-time & Full-time jobs available. Email TopPartTimeJobs@ gmail.com

ASSISTANT TEACHERS WILLIAMSBURG

Head Start seeking assistant teachers for the upcoming school year, no degree required. Call: 718.218.5511 leave message.

PRE NURSERY ASSISTANT

Wonderful Opportunity for Graduates: Chasidishe Mosed in Boro park is looking for a full day Pre Nursery assistant for the coming year. Great hours Great pay Great environment and Great location. Please email resume to: jobavail2024@gmail.com

DAYCARE POSITIONS

Daycare on 13th Ave looking for teachers assistant for second half and infant & preschool teachers for September please call/text 9293928750

TEACHER POSITION

Chasidishe Girls HS, BP seeks: Teacher Grade 11 American Govt. 2 periods weekly. Leave Voicemail: 212991-2813 ext 3430

EHS TEACHERS

Kindzees EHS in Williamsburg is looking to hire teachers with a BA or 90 credits. Great heimish, positive work environment and benefits for the right candidate. Transportation provided. Call 718-369-1800 Ext. 103

SECRETARY POSITION

Cheder in BP seeking a secretary for Sunday 8:45-4:00 and M- T: 1:006:00. Experience pref. Please email resume to secretaryposition4@gmail. com

P/T ASSISTANT MORAH

P/T Assistant Morah. Yiddish speaking. For small voucher playgroup, for September 24’. Located 47th between 18/19. Great pay! 718-853-4139 or 929-287-2054

CO- TEACHERS

Daycare in Boro Park is looking to hire coteachers with high school diploma or working towards degree. Graduates welcome! Training and support given with no at home preparation necessary. Great heimish, positive work environment and benefits for the right candidate. Please call 347- 450-6188.

SECRETARY

For Management office in Boro Park. Will train. Call 718-436-2326 or email to officesec2020@gmail.com

Better known known as the “Tzadik of Yerushalayim” for his work on behalf of the poor and sick. Also known as the “Father of Prisoners” for his visits to the central prison of Jerusalem during the British Mandate. Did not leave this world before giving over to his grandson the Koach to bring Yeshuas to Klal Yisroel.

A couple of weeks ago his grandson Rabbi Aryeh Yudalowitz Shlita from Bet Shemesh, was able to see anyone seeking a Brocha and many saw great Yeshuos B’H.

We are now offering an exclusive opportunity by having the Rav come to your home or office to do this special Tikun he received from his holy grandfather. The Tikun is known to remove any obstacles or blockages that may withhold your Hatzlocha in life.

Rav Chaim Kanievsky Z’L said to the Rav, that “Hashem has given him a special Koach”. As a result, B’H thousands have been helped through his special Tikunim and Tefilos.

Last visit in Lakewood resulted that a family with 3 unmarried girls were Zocha to have 2 engaged within a month after having that special Tikun done in their home

Another success came to a well-known businessman selling high -end jewelry. The man had been sitting with merchandise for over 18 month and business was declining. A Tikun was done in the office and t oday he’s B’H one of the largest in the industry with over millions of dollars in sales.

A woman was suffering of a severe illness in her intestines. The doctors gave it a very slim chance of recovery. B’H after the Tikun was done at the home of this women, she was cured completely.

Now it’s your opportunity to get the Yeshuah you have been waiting for. B’ezras Hashem we should all be Zoche to have the ultimate Tikun that will bring

Text or WhatsApp: 609 -300-4326 to schedule your appointment for a Tikun

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You may come see the Rabbi by booking a 15-minute meeting at www.HaravYudilevitz.com

Classifieds

PERMANENT SUBS GRADES 1-8

Seeking a dedicated individual to join our school as a permanent substitute for grades 1-8, English department. This is a unique opportunity to fill in for absent teachers and work with students across various grade levels. Please email resume to: byayteach@gmail.com

PRE NURSERY STAFF

Pre nursery in chassidishe school looking for devoted staff with or without certification. Yiddish speaking is a must. Please call 347-546-5606

DAYCARE POSITIONS

Daycare in center of BP looking for infant and preschool teachers for September please call/text 347-620-2569

TEACHERS WANTED

Girls school in BP seeks 7th grade Math/Science teacher MondayThursday 12:40-4:15 and 8th grade Math Teacher 2:30-4:15. Please email resume to: byayteach@gmail. com

RABBEIM POSITIONS

Rabbeim positions are open in Special Education Yeshiva located in Brooklyn. Competitive Pay, On Time Pay, Good Working Environment. Send Resumes to office@HaorBeacon.com

HUMAN RESOURCES ONBOARDING SPECIALIST

Full time, Boro Park office, Experience required, excellent phone and computer skills, efficient and detail oriented, able to multi-task. Salary range: $45,000.$55,000. Send resume to: jobs@yeled.org Att. HR Or Call 718.686.2422

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Heimish BP multi girl office seeking a f/t female secretary. Great Environment. Great pay. Will train. Email resume: resumessfs@gmail.com

ASSISTANT TEACHERS

Join our dynamic team. Seeking bright, enthusiastic and dedicated assistant teachers to work alongside our veteran teachers in grades 1-3. Perfect for high school graduates looking to develop their skills and gain valuable experience. MondayThursday afternoons. Excellent pay. Please email resume to: byayteach@ gmail.com

TEACHER

Literature, Business Math, Gym, and Chemistry positions avail. in girls HS in BP Good Pay. Email resume to teachersby75@ gmail.com

PART TIME JOB

Looking for a warm, experienced, Yiddish speaking teacher for playgroup 2 1/2 times a week in the 19th ave area. For September. Please call 347-598-3952.

SECRETARY WANTED

BP Insurance office. Email resume perry@ totalplantpa.com or call 718-576-1019

F/T SECRETARY

Heimishe Insurance office in BP looking for a F/T secretary. No experience necessary. Excellent pay and great potential! Please Call / Text (718) 631-3800 or Email resume to: sgrunzweig@allstate. com

SECRETARY

BP office seeking FT secretary. Quick learner, organized, ability to multitask, excellent communication and computer skills. Email: hr@mainstreambflow.com

SECRETARY

Yeshiva in Flatbush is looking for a secretary to start either immediately or in September. Great working environment. Grads Welcome. Please call or text 347-6455362 or email: Resumes@Lbaps.com.

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Heimish BP Office seeking a F/T female secretary for a busy eCommerce business. Must have great interpersonal skills, computer skills a plus. Competent grads welcome. Email resume: Rivky@ gimmeshades.com

SPECIALED REBBE

Special Ed Classroom Rebbe position avail for the 24/25 school year. Masters and experience a plus. Great salary. Email Resume: rebbespecialed@gmail.com

SECRETARY/BOOKKEEPER

Full Time position in Boro Park Good time management skills. Detail oriented, computer literate. Comfortable with MS word & excel. Great work environment. Opportunity to grow, great benefits. Will train. Email to: thinkyeled@yeled.org or call: 718.686.2422

Classifieds

SHOWROOM RECEPT

BP Showroom seeking an enthusiastic, detail-oriented, personable individual to fill this full-time role. Requested skills are resourcefulness, organization, stellar communication, keeping cool under pressure and juggling complex schedules. Potentially an entry-level position, however there is room for growth for the right person. Email your resume to Shulamit@kurrentny.com

PAYROLL ASSISTANT

Yeled V`Yalda Boro Park Seeking Full Time payroll assistant. Detail oriented, Organizational skills, Computer savvy, great environment. Salary: $42,000.-$45,000. Email: thinkyeled@yeled.org Call: 718.686.2422

ASSISTANT TEACHERS

Yeled V`Yalda Early Head Start seeking assistant teachers in Boro Park. Excellent salary, lots of benefits. Childcare included. Salary range $32,000-$35,000. Please call: 718.686.2422 Email: jobs@ yeled.org

STATEN ISLAND LEAD TEACHER

Looking for a great Staten Island local job? Yeled V`Yalda Staten Island is seeing an experienced, warm and enthusiastic teacher. Positive and friendly environment. 12 ECE Credits Required. Salary $41,000$68,000. Great benefits. Please send resume to: HRubinstein@Yeled.org or call 718-514-8865

AMAZING FEMALE POSITION

Seeking female entry level Candidate to work in EDU based healthcare office in the heart of Boro Park. Candidate should be excellent with customer service and detail oriented, Geder filter. Please Call/Text: 917.968.2292

MENTORS WANTED

Do you have a therapeutic personality? We are looking for young adults who are considering the mental health field, to be paired as mentors to with children on the spectrum to help build up their social life/skills. Call/ text/WA: 917.968.2292

ABA BEHAVIOR TECHNICIAN

Yeled V`Yalda is seeking ABA Behavior Technicians to join our team of caring professionals to provide ABA services for children with autism under the guidance of a BCBA. Flexible days and hours! 100% internet free option available! Opportunities available in your area! Salary range $24-$36 commensurate with experience. To apply please call: 718.686.2349 or email resume to: abaposition@ yeled.org

MENTORS WANTED

Amazing opportunity helping local families during evenings. Seeking mentors to help local children in their homes after school hours a few evenings a week. Must have HS diploma and be punctual. Have a BA? Event better!! to learn more Call/ Text/WA: 917.968.2292

POSITIONS AVAILABLE

Local office seeking full time office staff to fill various open positions. Excellent benefits. Pay range $23-$27 an hour. Please email resume to jobs@ hamaspikchoice.org

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT STAFF

Full time in office, Central Boro Park location. Requires strong computer and communication skills. Salary range $42,000-$60,000. Please send resume to: smarkovic@yeled.org or call: 718.686.2326

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST

Seeking experienced

Occupational Therapist for Special Ed school in Brooklyn. Excellent salary and collaborative working environment. Resumes@ yadyisroelschool.org

F/T PARAS

Now hiring paras to work full time in a special education school for the 24-25 school year. Supportive and heimish environment. Transportation provided. Resumes@ yadyisroelschool.org

SPECIAL ED TEACHERS

Now hiring a devoted special ed classroom teacher for the 24-25 school year. Small class size, excellent training, supportive environment. Resumes@ yadyisroelschool.org

INFANT CAREGIVER

Full time position in Boro Park, Exceptional environment and benefits. Salary $35,000-$41,000. Call: 718.686.2422 Or email to: jobs@yeled.org

OFFICE INTERN

Heimishe bp accounting office, seeking part time employee. No experience required. Can start summer or september. Email resume 1040.Dafc@gmail.Com 718259-2505

F/T OFFICE MANAGER

Local office seeking a full-time office manager to manage the day-to-day tasks of the office. Excellent benefits and long-term potential. $75k annual salary. Please email résumé to jobs@ hamaspikchoice.org

EHS TEACHER CANARSIE LOCATION

Seeking BA with 12 ECE Credits or study plan with almost complete BA and 12 Education credits. Please email resume to: Dbarnett@ yeled.org

STATEN ISLAND ASSISTANT TEACHER

Yeled V`Yalda Staten Island is seeking a warm, experienced and caring assistant teacher. (No teacher’s prep required!) Positive and friendly environment. Great benefits. Salary $33,000-$38,000. Please send resume to: HRubinstein@Yeled.org or call 718-514-8865

YESHIVA HIRING

Yeshiva in Flatbush with positions available for 2024-2025 School Year. ·Elementary & Junior High Teachers ·Teacher’s Assistants F/T & P/T ·Office Secretary F/T & P/T. Competitive Salary. Please email resume: interviewsatyeshiva@gmail. com

ABA PARA

Seeking ABA Para for 2nd grade boy in Kensington yeshiva for 2024 school year. Flexible Hrs. Call for details 3472789640

PRESCHOOL TEACHER WILLIAMSBURG

Join our team starting September 2024! Seeking a passionate teacher for our 4-year-old Head Start class in Williamsburg. Must have a min. of 90 credits. Apply now! Call: 718.514.8925 or 718.514.8926 If no answer, please leave a message or call 718.963.1841 in the evening

BILLER POSITION

Looking to hire an experienced biller for our office. Great Pay! Lots of growth opportunity! Email jobs@fcc-corp.com

F/T POSITION

Store in Boro Park looking for a saleslady with basic computer skills. Please call/ text 917-971-7109

GREAT OPPORTUNITY

Labor of love. Seeking a warm, mature woman to mentor a married woman with intellectual disabilities, for pay. Teach her how to cook, clean, and do laundry, helping her achieve independence. Weekday afternoons, Williamsburg. Mindyheller@ hamaspikkings.org 7183878400 Ext 236

P/T SECRETARY

Ichud Girls seeking p/t secretary p.m. hours, great environment and location! email resume to girlsichudjobs@gmail.com

CLASSROOM AIDE/ BUS MATRON

Full time position in Boro Park, Classroom assistant, one bus route daily. Exceptional environment and benefits. Salary $36,000. Plus. Call: 718.686.2422 Or email to: jobs@yeled.org

PHYSICAL THERAPIST

Seeking Physical Therapist to work in a wonderful school environment with children with Down Syndrome. Beautiful gym and professional support provided. Full time in Williamsburg. Email CNussenzweig@ hamaspikschool.org or call 718.408.5444 Ext. 5245

ADMIN ASSISTANT

Full-time administrative assistant position locations in Brooklyn Square. Seeking a motivated and responsible individual who has attention to detail and the ability to multitask. Amazing opportunity for growth for the right candidate. Apply now! Joinus@haimaba.com

TITLE 1 OFFICE GENERALIST

Full Time in office Central Boro Park location. Requires strong computer and communications skills. 4 plus years` experience. Education background preferred. Salary range: $50,000-$65,000. Please email resume to: smarkovic@yeled.org Call: 718.686.2326

AMAZING WORK OPPORTUNITY!

Harmony Dayhab is seeking warm, caring, and responsible female staff for the upcoming year. Great working environment, great pay, room for growth. Email resume: reception1467@ harmonyservices.org

CARE MANAGER POSITION

IDCC is seeking qualified personnel for its “Care Manager division”. If you enjoy working with kids then this job might be a great fit for you, Yiddish speaking, BA rqrd, please email with confidence to mlax@ interborough.org

INTAKE SPECIALIST

IDCC Health Homes Program is seeking an Intake specialist with 1 year experience in HR or Case managing, FT, great benefits, job location at our Kings highway office,some travel required. Yiddish speaking only, please email mlax@interborough.org

CARE MANAGER SUPERVISOR

28-35 hours weekly in office. Central Boro Park location. Requires 3 plus years` Experience as a Care Manager. BA required. Salary range: $60,000-$75,000. Please email resume to: smarkovic@yeled.org Call: 718.686.2326

These major brand name 2024 machines must be sold now!

$249.95 reduced from $469.95 brand new 197 stitch heavy duty model with embroidery, portable table, 6 auto buttonholes, merrow, blind hem, and more 10 year warranty.

$269.95 reduced from $499.95 brand new mechanical school model all stitches, metal gears, buttonhole, merrow, hem. Limited Quantities

Classifieds

DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS

HCS is seeking female Direct Support Professionals to work in a beautiful group home in Boro Park for highly independent young women. Experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities a plus. Driver’s license Preferred. Full-time, flexible hours. Monday through Friday 3:00 PM to 10:30 PM. Please contact 347-598-3127

PROJECT MANAGER

Seeking project manager for a busy marketing team, 1-2 years office experience required. Excellent communication skills, attention to detail and very efficient. Must be selfmotivated. No marketing experience required. Great pay and benefits, FT. Email resume to cwosner@ hamaspikkings.org

HELP WANTED

Your smile, your heart, your warmth, can change a child. The Hamaspik School seeks a master teacher and part-time paras to educate and enrich the school days of children with special needs. Please call 718.408.5444 Ext. 5245

INSTRUCTOR

Chayeinu Academy is seeking 1:1 instructor for the upcoming ‘24-’25 school year. Please email resume to info@ chayeinuacademy.org or call 718-303-9170.

HCBS COORDINATOR

Full Time in office, central Boro Park location. Requires strong computer and communications skills. Entry Level. Salary range: $42,000$55,000. Please email resume to: smarkovic@yeled.org Call: 718.686.2326

PLAYGROUP ASSISTANT BP playgroup seeking assistant 7th grade and up for 2nd half please call 718854-1092

DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS

Seeking a warm Heimish Couple to spend every second Shabbos in a group home in Flatbush, from Friday 12pm-till Moitzei Shabbos 11pm. Creating a homey atmosphere, for a few adults. Please send your resume to dsp@hcsny.org or call 7188542747 ext.1507

DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS

HCS is seeking male DSPs to work at our Flatbush residence for afternoon shifts 3-11 pm daily. Please forward resume’ to jobs@hcsny.org Please call 718-854-2747 ext. 1114

REGISTERED NURSE

HCS is looking for an experienced full time Registered Nurse(RN) for our residences in Brooklyn. Competitive Salary and great work environment. Please send resume to Jobs@HCSNY.org

AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM

After school program in BP for boys with special needs is looking to hire someone to lead the program for the upcoming school year. Experience a plus. Please call 718.854.2747 ext. 1280 or email a.preis@hcsny.org.

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Seeking a motivated, dynamic, responsible girl to do accounts receivables. Inter-personal phone skills, detail oriented and responsible. Transportation from BP provided. Short term with long term possibility. Please send resume to: jobs@ kleinsnaturals.com

TEACHERS

Chasidishe Girls School in BP is seeking full day Pre Nursery Teacher w/Degree & W/out Degree & Kindergarten Teacher. Experience preferred. Excellent pay. Pls call 718-916-0213 or email: surpike@gmail.com

CHILDCARE

KINDER GROUP

No Vouchers. 12th/42. Still accepting for Summer children 23month+. For September 18m+. Big lechtige walk in, Big yard, and mature experienced Morahs. 718633-3263 or text 347-2327608

PLAYGROUP

Warm Yidish speeking NONVOUCHERS playgroup in upper 50s call 9292366129

DAYCARE SLOTS LEFT

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HERSHY KOHN

A TRIBUTE TO RAV MOSHE WOLFSON, ZT”L השמ

אנמיהמ איער

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The whole generation was sustained by him…” These were the words of HaGaon Rav Moshe Shterbuch, shlit”a, Raavad of the Eidah HaChareidis at the levaya of Rav Moshe Wolfson in Yerushalayim.

Rav Moshe Wolfson, mashgiach of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and Rav of Khal Emunas Yisroel, was niftar Motzei Shabbos, 17 Sivan, at the age of 99. His passing leaves a tremendous void.

The renowned mechanech Reb Aron Arye Eisenberg asserted, “Almost one hundred years old, and he was one piece of avodas Hashem without a hefsek! Although he had chashuve parents, he was not born in a rebbishe or rabbonishe home… With his own hands and his extraordinary derech of being mevakesh Hashem without ever being mafsik, every day was a fresh opportunity to serve Hashem with fresh kochos.”

The Mashgiach was a symbol for any mevakesh: If you seek Hashem with your entire heart, you will succeed.

Early Beginnings

Rav Wolfson was born in New York on 23 Teves, 5685/January, 1925. His father was Reb Shmuel Yehudah, an Alexander chassid originally from Poland.

In his youth, he learned in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas under the guidance of Harav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, zt”l, whom he referred to as his rebbi muvhak in Torah. As a bochur, he was very close to Rav Shaul Yedidya of Mozhitz, zy”a, and many other tzaddikim, including the Satmar Rav, the Stoliner Rebbe and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, zy”a. He also considered himself to be a chassid of the Skverer Rebbe, zy”a, with whom he was extremely close, and he followed the Rebbe’s every word.

This hiskashrus to tzaddikim continued throughout his life. He would attend, with great humility, tischen of rebbes young enough to be his sons.

After his chasunah, Rav Wolfson lived in Williamsburg, where he davened in the Polish shtiebel. Later, he davened in the Stoliner shul, where he also attended chaburos during the week. The chaburos centered on tales of tzaddikim and hadracha in avodas Hashem and were given by the elder chassidim.

Rav Wolfson described these chaburos as the “ikar Yiddishkeit.” It was there that he developed a feeling for the fiery Stoliner nusach which he later instituted in his beis medrash as the nusach for the weekday davening

Combining Torah With Da’as

The Mashgiach served as a rebbi in Torah Vodaas for several years, until Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky, zt”l, asked him to take on the position of mashgiach in the beis medrash.

In later years, Rav Wolfson commented, “It hit me like thunder from a clear blue sky — I should be mashgiach?” He explained that the word implied a gaon who had the ability to maintain order throughout the entire beis medrash, which in this case numbered 300 bochurim. In his great humility, he didn’t consider himself fit for this position.

Rav Yaakov tried to persuade him to accept, asserting that he would succeed, and would not relent despite Rav Wolfson’s refusal.

Rav Moshe decided to present the question to the Skverer Rebbe, zy”a, sure that the Rebbe would oppose the idea.

The Skverer Rebbe told him, “If you would want [to take the position], I would tell you not to. But since you don’t want it, I say that you should!”

Emunah was the Foundation

Rav Wolfson often recounted the Gemara stating that someone who is appointed to any position of power is so ordained min haShamayim and has siyata d’Shmaya with a special hashgacha pratis. Indeed, Rav Wolfson saw that siyata d’Shmaya

His son-in-law, Rav Motel Silber, shlit”a, Rav of K’hal Toldos Yehudah D’Talmidei Stutchin, related during his hesped that the Mashgiach would give a shmuess every week, and the topic was always emunah. That was the foundation, and everything revolved around it. He noted that many people have the Mashgiach to thank for their Yiddishkeit; this clear emunah, twinned with the warmth and kedusha of chassidus, left an everlasting impression on his talmidim.

Emunas Yisroel

In the summers, Rav Wolfson led a chaburah of bochurim in Camp Torah Vodaas. They belonged to a chevras masmidim, and they wanted their own minyan

The Mashgiach davened with them slowly and with great hislahavus. When the summer was over and they returned home, they wanted to hold on to the uplifting tefillos. That’s when the idea was born: Why not maintain the minyan all year?

And they did. Although the Mashgiach still lived in Williamsburg at the time, the kehillah was founded in Boro Park under his guidance and takanos. The name Emunas Yisroel was chosen in reference to two tzaddikim: Rebbe Yisroel, the Ba’al Shem Tov, zy”a, and Rebbe Yisroel, the Kozhnitzer Magid, zy”a, because the first time the Mashgiach and bochurim davened together in Boro Park was on Erev Sukkos, the yarhtzeit of the Kozhnitzer Maggid.

It was only two years later that the Mashgiach himself moved to Boro Park. In his great humility, he never called himself “Rav” or “Rebbe,” rather retaining the title “Mashgiach” all his life.

Emunas Yisroel was refreshingly different. Everything was always low-key and humble, just like its manhig. There was no commercialized publicity or calculated positioning. Yet more and more people were drawn to the magnetic atmosphere that Rav Wolfson created, and the minyan outgrew progressively larger locations. The purity of Torah, tefillah, yiras Shamayim and chassidus drew people from near and far.

The beis medrash was the first heichal haTorah in Boro Park, a place where people could come and learn all day long, amidst a kol Torah that emanated all hours of the day or night.

A Boro Park resident, a Satmar chassid, recalls, “I used to come from 12th Avenue during bein hazmanim to learn there — that was the place.”

Tefillah l’Moshe

Due to the pressures of parnassah and other responsibilities, in many places it had become the style of the

hamon am to daven quickly during the week. Only on Shabbos, with nowhere to run, was the pace of davening slower.

Emunas Yisroel changed that. A talmid recalled how the Mashgiach would often relate the words of the Baal HaTanya, zy”a, who writes in his Igeres HaKodesh that Shacharis should take an hour and a half.

When the Toldos Aharon Rebbe, zy”a, sent his children to New York to raise money for his mosdos, he told them that during the week, they must make sure to daven only in Emunas Yisroel.

There was an individual from outside Boro Park who was marrying off a son. On the day of the wedding, the father of the chasan sought an auspicious place to daven with his son, the chasan, at this meaningful time. He brought his son to Boro Park just to daven Shacharis in Emunas Yisroel, finding there the atmosphere he was seeking at this special moment.

Vayedaber Moshe es Mo’adei Hashem

Shabbos and Yomim Tovim were the highlights of the year. At those times, the Mashgiach’s shining face had an extra glow. It bestowed the kedushas hazman on all of those present, whether at the sheves achim on Friday night or at seuda shlishis, which lasted until long after the zman motzaei Shabbos.

A visitor from outside Boro Park attended the hakafos one Sukkos with his son, and together they watched the Mashgiach dance. “My son told me, ‘He looks like a malach,’” the man recalls.

“I had no connection whatsoever to Emunas Yisroel,” related another Yid. “But for years, I would attend the rikudim of the simchas beis hashoevah. I’d been to many similar events at other places, but nothing compared to the atmosphere there, so I went back every year. Just as it drew me, I saw many others from different kehillos who came to Emunas Yisroel to experience the meaning of ‘v’samachta bachagecha.’’”

May the Mashgiach be a meilitz yosher for all of his talmidim and all of Klal Yisroel.

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